Functional Health
Root-cause care designed to uncover what's driving your symptoms and build a personalized path toward better health, performance, and longevity.
Functional Health, in detail
At EvoHealth, functional medicine means root-cause care: looking beyond the diagnosis or symptom to understand the underlying factors contributing to it. We combine your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, and biomarkers to identify what may be driving the problem, then build a personalized plan around nutrition, exercise, sleep, targeted supplementation, and medical therapy when appropriate.
This is for you if you are dealing with ongoing symptoms like fatigue, metabolic or weight changes, hormone changes, digestive problems, or an autoimmune condition, and you want to understand what is causing them. It is also for people who feel well and want to improve their health before problems start. Your plan will ask you to make changes to how you eat, exercise, and sleep, because those habits do much of the work. If your needs are urgent or better handled by a specialist, we will tell you up front and help you get to the right place.
Care starts with a free 15-minute consultation with Dr. Wilson or Dr. Cole to make sure this approach is the right fit for you. Your initial assessment reviews your health history, past test results, and family history. From there, we order testing based on your needs. This may include cardiometabolic markers, a full thyroid panel, cortisol levels throughout the day, hormone levels, and digestive testing such as SIBO breath testing or stool analysis when your symptoms point to the gut. We then turn your results into a written plan with clear goals.
Many people notice changes in sleep, energy, and mood within a few weeks. Metabolic and hormone markers usually take a few months to improve. Digestive health often takes the longest. Treating an overgrowth, supporting gut repair, and reintroducing foods happen in stages over several months, and each step needs to be finished before the next one begins. We will walk you through the expected timeline at the start and schedule follow-up testing once your results have had time to change.
Your care plan includes time with your provider, review of your results, a personalized treatment plan, and ongoing adjustments as your health changes. Lab testing and supplements are arranged separately, and we will always explain why something is recommended before anything is ordered. Care is available in person in Overland Park or by telehealth across Kansas and Missouri.
Common questions
The ones we are asked most about Functional Health.
Many functional medicine programs focus mainly on lab panels and supplements. At EvoHealth, testing is one part of your care. Your plan also covers nutrition, exercise, recovery, supplements, and medication when appropriate, and we keep adjusting it based on how you respond.
Testing is based on your symptoms and history, not a one-size-fits-all panel. Common tests include fasting insulin, a full thyroid panel with antibodies, cortisol levels throughout the day, ApoB, inflammation markers, and hormone levels. If your symptoms point to the gut, we may also recommend SIBO breath testing, stool analysis, or gut barrier markers.
Not if your results are recent and answer the questions we need answered. Bring your previous results to your consultation. We will review them first so we only order testing that adds new information.
Conditions treated here
Gut Health
Ongoing digestive symptoms have a cause we can find. Your plan for nutrition, gut bacteria, and gut lining repair is based on what your testing shows.
Hormone Imbalance
Estrogen, testosterone, thyroid, cortisol, and insulin all affect each other. We test them together so your treatment addresses the full picture.
Metabolic Disorders
Standard blood sugar tests change late. We start with fasting insulin and HOMA-IR to find metabolic problems early, when they are easier to correct.
Mood Disorders
Anxiety, low mood, and brain fog can have physical causes. We test for them and work alongside your mental health care, not in place of it.
Autoimmune Disease
We work alongside your rheumatologist to address gut health, inflammation, nutrient levels, and lingering infections, with the goal of fewer flares.
Chronic Fatigue
Ongoing fatigue often has more than one cause. We look at thyroid function, cellular energy, stress hormones, and nutrient levels together to find what is draining your energy.
Ready to start with a clear clinical picture?
Start with the fifteen-minute consultation. No cost, and a straight answer on whether this model fits your case.